Spaceship-Shaped House Available on Tennessee's Signal Mountain

Rent this house shaped like a spaceship, because it is a house shaped like a spaceship.

Just two weeks ago, I found myself traveling up Signal Mountain in Chattanooga, Tenn., for a wedding (congrats, John and Eleanor!). There I passed by the notorious Spaceship House, which has just been listed as available for rent on Craigslist. A few things about the Spaceship House:

It was built by Curtis King in 1973. Its long history was recounted by The Wall Street Journal back in 2008.

Every Christmas, the owner bedecks the Spaceship House with a festive inflatable alien wearing a jaunty Santa hat.

The Spaceship House is cursed, according to the cab driver who drove me to the wedding.

A three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot Spaceship House in Tennessee rents for far less than the much smaller and not-at-all spaceship-shaped house I rent in Washington, D.C.

The Spaceship House is cool, but it is not as cool as the Duck in Long Island, N.Y. (greatly admired by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates).

Credit: Licensed for use by Alexander Rabb under Flickr Creative Commons